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Return to Tatara Island: Ultra Monster Anthology (多々良島ふたたび ウルトラ怪獣アンソロジー, Tatarajima Futatabi Urutora Kaijū Ansorojī) is the first release in the TSUBURAYA×HAYAKAWA UNIVERSE collaboration series. Featuring seven short stories by various authors, which had originally been included in issues of SF Magazine, it released on July 23, 2015,[1] and was later reprinted in 2018 under Hayakawa's JA imprint with new cover art by Yuji Kaida.[2]

Two of the short stories in the anthology, "Tatara Island Again" by Hiroshi Yamamoto, and "The Man Who Took The Footprints of Kaiju Rukusubigura" by Hirofumi Tanaka, won the 47th Seiun Award for Best Japanese Short Story.[3]

Works[]

Title Author Original SF Magazine Issue
Tatara Island Again (多々良島ふたたび, Tatara-jima futatabi) Hiroshi Yamamoto (山本 弘, Yamamoto Hiroshi) January 2015[4]
Gifts from Outer Space (宇宙からの贈りものたち, Uchū Kara no Okurimono-tachi) Yusaku Kitano (北野 勇作, Kitano Yūsaku)
Mountain Peanuts (マウンテンピーナッツ, Maunten Pīnattsu) Yasumi Kobayashi (小林 泰三, Kobayashi Yasumi)
The Approaching Shadow (影が来る, Kage ga Kuru) Shinzou Mitsuda (三津田 信三, Mitsuda Shinzō) February 2015[5]
Transformation Disorder (変身障害, Henshin Shōgai) Shingo Fujisaki (藤崎 慎吾, Fujisaki Shingo) June 2015
The Man Who Took the Footprints of Kaiju Lux Vigra (怪獣ルクスビグラの足型を取った男, Kaijū Rukusu Bigura no Ashigata o Totta Otoko) Hirofumi Tanaka (田中 啓文, Tanaka Hirofumi) April 2015[6]
Festival of Scars (痕の祀り, Ato no Matsuri) Dempow Torishima (酉島 伝法, Torishima Denpō) August 2015

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Trivia[]

  • A talk show event was held on August 8, 2015 to celebrate its release, with Hiroshi Yamamoto, Hiroko Sakurai and Pigmon making appearances.[1]
  • Yasumi Kobayashi would go on to write Ultraman F.

References[]

Literature
Showa Ultraman (Operation Gold Rush, Umezu, Nohara, Kazumine, Operation Giant) | Ultraseven (The Targeted Star, Kuwata, Kazumine) | Return of Ultraman | Ultraman Great Fierce Battle | Ultraman Ace | Ultraman Taro (Uchiyama, Ishikawa) | Ultraman Leo | Mirrorman | The・Ultraman | Ultra Brothers Story | The☆Ultraman | Ultraman 80 | Decisive Battle! Brothers | Ultra Super Legends
Heisei Ultraman Great (Manga, Novel) | The Great Battle III | Ultraman: Super Fighter Legend | Gridman the Hyper Agent: The Demon King's Counterattack | Mirrorman: The Mirror Apocalypse | Ultraman Tiga (Forest of the White Fox, Kiriel-Bito) | Ultraman Dyna (Star of Peace・The・Other) | Ultraman Gaia (The Day Algona Arrived, Superhuman Legend) | TPC Chronology | Heisei Ultraseven (Ultraseven EPISODE: 0, Ultraseven EVOLUTION) | Ultraman THE FIRST | Ultra Q dark fantasy (Manga, Novel) | Ultraman THE NEXT | Ultraman Nexus (Manga, "N" THE OTHER, Second Coming -Dreams-) | Ultraman Story 0 | Ultraman Max | Ultraman Mebius (Anderes Horizont, Fight! Ultra Brothers, Armored Darkness) | Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Adventure | Ultra Monster Kattobi! Land | Ultraseven X | Ultra Ninpocho | Ultra Idemitsujin | Ultraman Sisters | Ultraman: Another Genesis | ULTRAMAN | Seven Queu: Lovely Idol | Ultra Monster Anthropomorphic Project (Novels, Galaxy Days, POP, Ultra Journey, The Beginning Stories) | TSUBURAYA×HAYAKAWA (Return to Tatara Island: Ultra Monster Anthology, Ultraman Dual, Ultraman F, Ultraman Dual 2) | Ultraman Orb Chronicle | Ultraman R/B (Ultraman R/B The Movie Novelization, Ultraman R/B Novel) | TDG: Adventure in Hyperspace
Reiwa SSSS.GRIDMAN Short Story: Diamond in the Notebook | Ultraman Tiga: To the Shining Ones | SSSS.GRIDMAN NOVELIZATIONS | SSSS.GRIDMAN: Neon Genesis Junior High Student Diary | Hime and Samurai | ULTRAMAN SUIT ANOTHER UNIVERSE | Ultraman Dyna: Zero Drive Towards Tomorrow | Anime ULTRAMAN Novel | Ultraman Taiga Novel | SSSS.GRIDMAN ANOTHER LOAD | SSSS.GRIDMAN: Neon Genesis Junior High Students Butler Cafe | Sengoku Gridman | Ultimate Force Zero ~Side Story~ | Diaclone VS. Gridman | Fight! Sevenger | DARKNESS HEELS ―Lili― | Mirrorman 2D | Jugglus Juggler Chronicle: Ja no Michi wa Hebi | Another Gene | SSSS.DYNAZENON CHRONICLE | Gridman Dogma | What is the power to end conflicts?‎ | GRIDMAN UNIVERSE | Ultraman Blazar | Ultraman: Along Came a Spider-Man | Mighty Jack: THE SHADOW FORCE
Foreign Ultraman (Ultracomics) | Ultraman (Nemesis Comics) | Ultraman Tiga | Redman | The Rise of Ultraman | The Trials of Ultraman | Dinosaur Great War Izenborg: The Dinosaur Army | The Mystery of Ultraseven | Ultraman: The Official Novel of the Series | Ultraman X Avengers | Ultraseven: The Official Novel of the Series | Ultraman: The Adventure Begins Novelization | Ultraman: Ultra Academy
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